Cape Cod Striper Fishing Tutorial: How to chum & live-line mackerel

One of the most exciting and fun ways to catch striped bass on Cape Cod is to fish with live bait. In many situations is hard to beat the effectiveness of a live menhaden, scup, eel or mackerel.

Mackerel in particular have become one of my most favorite baits to fish with. Stripers on the Cape love live mackerel, but they also love fresh dead whole mackerel, as well as chunks of mackerel.

Mackerel themselves are also fun to catch! Sometimes when I take people fishing (especially people who are new to fishing) they enjoy catching the mackerel just as much as they enjoy catching the stripers.

In this video, which was filmed during the summer of 2018, I am fishing for striped bass in very shallow water. After anchoring up I began to chum the water, and within 30 minutes a school containing dozens of stripers appeared around the boat.

The action got pretty crazy for a wild, and I even had a HUGE seal grab one of my striper's right next to the boat!!!!

Timestamps:
1:57 - recommended rod, reel and line
3:45 - first of several "cool" underwater mackerel shots, lol
4:00 - what to do when you get a bite
4:56 - underwater footage of bass chasing mackerel
5:43 - first striper of the trip
6:43 - the best way to hook a mackerel
7:08 - striper #2
10:57 - the second best way to hook a mackerel
15:50 - hook up #3
18:00 - hooked up again, striper gets chased by a seal!!!!


Equipment used in this video:
Rod: Shimano Tallus 6'6" 50-150lb TLC-66HBBL
Reel: Shimano Torium 16HGA Baitcasting Reel https://www.themightyfish.com/product...
Line: 50 pound moss green Power Pro braid https://www.themightyfish.com/product...
Leader: 50 pound Seaguar Fluorocarbon https://www.themightyfish.com/product...
Hook: size 5/0 Trokar circle https://www.themightyfish.com/product...

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